Eleven states seceded from the union to create the Confederate States of America. They were Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana and Virginia.
The North is referred to as the Union or United States. The South was the Confederacy or Confederate States.
The Union is all of the Northern states. The Confederacy is the South.
South
No. The South was the breakaway Confederacy. The North were the states that had remained loyal to the USA - the Union. (They included four slave-states)
The Union was the North - all the states that had not joined the Confederacy.
The north was known as the Union. It was the north that did not want the states to be separated.
The Union was the Northern part of the United States, while the Confederacy was the Southern portion.
The south seceded from the United States. The south formed the Confederacy, while the north was generally known as the Union.
The Southern states formed the Confederacy. The North - or what was left of the USA - was termed the Union.
The Union which was comprised mainly of northern states.
Confederacy is the South
The Confederate States of America or Confederacy